Ambush-type predatory spider

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Ambush-type predatory spider

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Searching for misumena AND prey turned up this image of one with a captured bee:
http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... umena+prey.
In this case the spider was not camouflaged, it did not match the flower but it still caught a bee.

Currently I am sorting through my thousands of images and came across this same species of spider - Goldenrod Crab Spider, Misumena vatia, a female - that was a perfect match for the clover flower, even down to the pink shading. It too had caught a bee.

July 12 2013, Nikon D2Xs, f/22 on 200mm Micro Nikkor.
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Post by ChrisR »

I'd guess this one was the same genus, at least? : http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/u ... PE14_1.jpg
(That was a short stack. I've just noticed the ghosted silk strands :roll: )
I brought it indoors later, and it turned green.

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Post by NikonUser »

Looks like the same genus, may even be the same species. No idea of the British fauna (spider-wise),
In NA there is a similar-looking genus: Misumenoides; both have spiders that can change colour.
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student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.

Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives

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